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Zhu P, Zhu Q, Dong X, Sun M. Flying Target Detection Technology Based on GNSS Multipath Signals. Sensors (Basel) 2024; 24:1706. [PMID: 38475242 DOI: 10.3390/s24051706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2024] [Revised: 02/20/2024] [Accepted: 02/26/2024] [Indexed: 03/14/2024]
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In this study, a passive radar system that detects flying targets is developed in order to solve the problems associated with traditional flying target detection systems (i.e., their large size, high power consumption, complex systems, and poor battlefield survivability). On the basis of target detection, the system uses the multipath signal (which is usually eliminated as an error term in navigation and positioning), enhances it by supporting information, and utilizes the multi-source characteristics of ordinary omnidirectional global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals. The results of a validation experiment showed that the system is able to locate a passenger airplane and obtain its flight trajectory using only one GNSS receiving antenna. The system is characterized by its light weight (less than 5 kg), low power consumption, simple system, good portability, low cost, and 24/7 and all-weather work. It can be installed in large quantities and has good prospects for development.
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- Pengfei Zhu
- China Research Institute of Radiowave Propagation, Qingdao 266107, China
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- China Research Institute of Radiowave Propagation, Qingdao 266107, China
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- China Research Institute of Radiowave Propagation, Qingdao 266107, China
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- China Research Institute of Radiowave Propagation, Qingdao 266107, China
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Núñez-Ortuño JM, González-Coma JP, Nocelo López R, Troncoso-Pastoriza F, Álvarez-Hernández M. Beamforming Techniques for Passive Radar: An Overview. Sensors (Basel) 2023; 23:3435. [PMID: 37050492 PMCID: PMC10098532 DOI: 10.3390/s23073435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2023] [Revised: 03/20/2023] [Accepted: 03/22/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Passive radar is an interesting approach in the context of non-cooperative target detection. Because the signal source takes advantage of the so-called illuminator of opportunity (IoO), the deployed system is silent, allowing the operator cheap, portable, and practically undetectable deployments. These systems match perfectly with the use of antenna arrays to take advantage of the additional gains provided by the coherent combination of the signals received at each element. To obtain these benefits, linear processing methods are required to enhance the system's performance. In this work, we summarize the main beamforming methods in the literature to provide a clear picture of the current state of the art. Next, we perform an analysis of the benefits and drawbacks and explore the chance of increasing the number of antenna elements. Finally, we identify the major challenges to be addressed by researchers in the future.
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Rosado-Sanz J, Jarabo-Amores MP, De la Mata-Moya D, Rey-Maestre N. Adaptive Beamforming Approaches to Improve Passive Radar Performance in Sea and Wind Farms' Clutter. Sensors (Basel) 2022; 22:6865. [PMID: 36146214 PMCID: PMC9500949 DOI: 10.3390/s22186865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2022] [Revised: 08/27/2022] [Accepted: 09/06/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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This article presents the problem of passive radar vessel detection in a real coastal scenario in the presence of sea and wind farms' clutter, which are characterised by high spatial and time variability due to the influence of weather conditions. Deterministic and adaptive beamforming techniques are proposed and evaluated using real data. Key points such as interference localisation and characterisation are tackled in the passive bistatic scenario with omnidirectional illuminators that critically increase the area of potential clutter sources to areas far from the surveillance area. Adaptive beamforming approaches provide significant Signal-to-Interference improvements and important radar coverage improvements. In the presented case study, an aerial target is detected 28 km far from the passive radar receiver, fulfilling highly demanding performance requirements.
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Gomez-Del-Hoyo P, Del-Rey-Maestre N, Jarabo-Amores MP, Mata-Moya D, Benito-Ortiz MD. Improved 2D Ground Target Tracking in GPS-Based Passive Radar Scenarios. Sensors (Basel) 2022; 22:1724. [PMID: 35270872 DOI: 10.3390/s22051724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2021] [Revised: 02/14/2022] [Accepted: 02/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites offer promising opportunity for Passive Radar systems due to their global coverage and the availability of multiple satellites throughout the world. However, their low power at ground level limits system coverage. In this paper, a GPS based Passive Radar which exploits a single illumination source, and uses digital array processing for ground targets localization is presented. To face signal power problems, a processing scheme combining reconstructed reference signals, adaptive filtering techniques and spatial filtering is implemented. Conventional beamforming techniques are used to increase the level of the target echo before the detection stage, and high resolution DoA estimation techniques are applied to estimate targets azimuth. Ground target localization in local Cartesian space is performed taking into account the system geometry, range and azimuth information. Both synthetic and real radar data are used to analyse system operation. During the measurement campaign, a cooperative vehicle was used for validation purposes. Results confirm that ground targets detection and localization are feasible using a single GPS transmitter.
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Mescia L, Mevoli G, Lamacchia CM, Gallo M, Bia P, Gaetano D, Manna A. Sinuous Antenna for UWB Radar Applications. Sensors (Basel) 2021; 22:248. [PMID: 35009791 PMCID: PMC8749522 DOI: 10.3390/s22010248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2021] [Revised: 12/18/2021] [Accepted: 12/27/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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In this paper, the recent progress on sinuous antennas is detailed, focusing the attention on the antenna geometry, dielectric structure, and miniaturization techniques. In the first part, we introduce the basic principles of the frequency-independent antenna, in particular the self-complementary and log-periodic geometries, as well as the antenna geometries, all characterized in terms of angles. The operating principles, main advantages, system design considerations, limits, and challenges of conventional sinuous antennas are illustrated. Second, we describe some technical solutions aimed to ensure the optimal trade-off between antenna size and radiation behavior. To this aim, some special modification of the antenna geometry based on the meandering as well as on the loading with dielectric structures are presented. Moreover, the cavity backing technique is explained in detail as a method to achieve unidirectional radiation. Third, we present a new class of supershaped sinuous antenna based on a suitable merge of the 2D superformula and the sinuous curve. The effect of the free parameters change on the antenna arm geometry as well as the performance improvement in terms of directivity, beam stability, beam angle, gain, and radiating efficiency are highlighted.
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- Luciano Mescia
- Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Politecnico di Bari, Via E. Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy;
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- Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Politecnico di Bari, Via E. Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy;
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- R&D Department, IAMAtek srl, 70127 Bari, Italy; (C.M.L.); (M.G.)
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- Design Solution Department, Elettronica SpA, 00131 Rome, Italy; (P.B.); (D.G.); (A.M.)
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- Design Solution Department, Elettronica SpA, 00131 Rome, Italy; (P.B.); (D.G.); (A.M.)
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- Design Solution Department, Elettronica SpA, 00131 Rome, Italy; (P.B.); (D.G.); (A.M.)
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Wang H, Lyu X, Liao K. Co-Channel Interference Suppression for LTE Passive Radar Based on Spatial Feature Cognition. Sensors (Basel) 2021; 22:117. [PMID: 35009657 PMCID: PMC8747102 DOI: 10.3390/s22010117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2021] [Revised: 12/12/2021] [Accepted: 12/20/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Passive radars based on long-term evolution (LTE) signals suffer from sever interferences. The interferences are not only from the base station used as the illuminator of opportunity (BS-IoO), but also from the other co-channel base stations (CCBS) working at the same frequency with the BS-IoO. Because the reference signals of the co-channel interferences are difficult to obtain, cancellation performance degrades seriously when traditional interference suppression methods are applied in LTE-based passive radar. This paper proposes a cascaded cancellation method based on the spatial spectrum cognition of interference. It consists of several cancellation loops. In each loop, the spatial spectrum of strong interferences is first recognized by using the cyclostationary characteristic of LTE signal and the compressed sensing technique. A clean reference signal of each interference is then reconstructed according to the spatial spectrum previously obtained. With the reference signal, the interferences are cancelled. At the end of each loop, the energy of the interference residual is estimated. If the interference residual is still strong, then the cancellation loop continues; otherwise it terminates. The proposed method can get good cancellation performance with a small-sized antenna array. Theoretical and simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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- Haitao Wang
- School of Information and Communication, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, China; (H.W.); (K.L.)
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- School of Information Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
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- School of Information and Communication, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, China; (H.W.); (K.L.)
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Deng Y, Li W, Zhang S, Wang F, Xiao W, Cui Z. Clutter Suppression Method for Off-Grid Effects Mitigation in Airborne Passive Radars with Contaminated Reference Signals. Sensors (Basel) 2021; 21:s21196339. [PMID: 34640659 PMCID: PMC8512584 DOI: 10.3390/s21196339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2021] [Revised: 09/06/2021] [Accepted: 09/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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For an airborne passive radar with contaminated reference signals, the clutter caused by multipath (MP) signals involved in the reference channel (MP clutter) corrupts the covariance estimation in space-time adaptive processing (STAP). In order to overcome the severe STAP performance degradation caused by impure reference signals and off-grid effects, a novel MP clutter suppression method based on local search is proposed for airborne passive radar. In the proposed method, the global dictionary is constructed based on the sparse measurement model of MP clutter, and the global atoms that are most relevant to the residual are selected. Then, the local dictionary is designed iteratively, and local searches are performed to match real MP clutter points. Finally, the off-grid effects are mitigated, and the MP clutter is suppressed from all matched atoms. A range of simulations is conducted in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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- Yaqi Deng
- College of Information and Electronic Engineering, Hunan City University, No. 518, Yingbin East Road, Yiyang 413000, China; (Y.D.); (S.Z.); (F.W.); (Z.C.)
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- College of Information and Electronic Engineering, Hunan City University, No. 518, Yingbin East Road, Yiyang 413000, China; (Y.D.); (S.Z.); (F.W.); (Z.C.)
- Correspondence:
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- College of Information and Electronic Engineering, Hunan City University, No. 518, Yingbin East Road, Yiyang 413000, China; (Y.D.); (S.Z.); (F.W.); (Z.C.)
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- College of Information and Electronic Engineering, Hunan City University, No. 518, Yingbin East Road, Yiyang 413000, China; (Y.D.); (S.Z.); (F.W.); (Z.C.)
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- College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University, No. 2, Lushan South Road, Yuelu District, Changsha 410082, China;
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- College of Information and Electronic Engineering, Hunan City University, No. 518, Yingbin East Road, Yiyang 413000, China; (Y.D.); (S.Z.); (F.W.); (Z.C.)
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Rosado-Sanz J, Jarabo-Amores MP, Dauvignac JY, Mata-Moya D, Lanteri J, Migliaccio C. Design and Validation of a Reflectarray Antenna with Optimized Beam for Ground Target Monitoring with a DVB-S-Based Passive Radar. Sensors (Basel) 2021; 21:s21165263. [PMID: 34450720 PMCID: PMC8400626 DOI: 10.3390/s21165263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2021] [Revised: 07/29/2021] [Accepted: 07/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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A reflectarray antenna with an optimized sectorial beam is designed for the surveillance channel of a DVB-S-based passive radar (PR). The employment of satellite illuminators requires a high gain antenna to counteract the losses due to the great distance from the transmitter, but without forgetting a beamwidth wide enough to provide angular coverage. A method based on optimizing the position of several contiguous beams is proposed to achieve the required sectorial pattern. Different reflectarray elements are designed to achieve S-curves with smooth slopes and covering all the required phases (the S-curve represents the reflection phase of a single element, as a function of size, rotation and incidence angle). The real phase and modulus of the reflection coefficient of each element are considered in the optimization process to achieve the best real prototype. Geometry has been studied and adapted to employ commercial elements for the feed, feed-arm and the structure that holds the aperture. The designed prototype has been characterized in an anechoic chamber achieving a stable gain greater than 19 dBi in almost the complete DVB-S band, from 10.5 GHz to 12 GHz with a sectorial beam of 8.7∘×5.2∘. The prototype has also been validated in PR trials in terrestrial scenarios allowing the detection of cars at distances up to 600 m away from the PR, improving the performance achieved with commercial parabolic dish antennas.
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- Javier Rosado-Sanz
- Signal Theory and Communications Department, University of Alcalá, 28805 Alcalá de Henares, Spain; (M.-P.J.-A.); (D.M.-M.)
- Correspondence:
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- Signal Theory and Communications Department, University of Alcalá, 28805 Alcalá de Henares, Spain; (M.-P.J.-A.); (D.M.-M.)
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- Campus Sophia Tech. Laboratoire d’Electronique, Antennes et Télécommunications (LEAT), CNRS, Université Côte d’Azur, 06903 Sophia Antipolis, France; (J.-Y.D.); (J.L.); (C.M.)
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- Signal Theory and Communications Department, University of Alcalá, 28805 Alcalá de Henares, Spain; (M.-P.J.-A.); (D.M.-M.)
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- Campus Sophia Tech. Laboratoire d’Electronique, Antennes et Télécommunications (LEAT), CNRS, Université Côte d’Azur, 06903 Sophia Antipolis, France; (J.-Y.D.); (J.L.); (C.M.)
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- Campus Sophia Tech. Laboratoire d’Electronique, Antennes et Télécommunications (LEAT), CNRS, Université Côte d’Azur, 06903 Sophia Antipolis, France; (J.-Y.D.); (J.L.); (C.M.)
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Blasone GP, Colone F, Lombardo P, Wojaczek P, Cristallini D. Dual Cancelled Channel STAP for Target Detection and DOA Estimation in Passive Radar. Sensors (Basel) 2021; 21:s21134569. [PMID: 34283121 PMCID: PMC8271834 DOI: 10.3390/s21134569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2021] [Revised: 06/29/2021] [Accepted: 06/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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This paper deals with the problem of detection and direction of arrival (DOA) estimation of slowly moving targets against clutter in multichannel mobile passive radar. A dual cancelled channel space-time adaptive processing (STAP) scheme is proposed, aiming at reducing the system computational complexity, as well as the amount of required training data, compared to a conventional full array solution. The proposed scheme is shown to yield comparable target detection capability and DOA estimation accuracy with respect to the corresponding full array solution, despite the lower computational cost required. Moreover, it offers increased robustness against adaptivity losses, operating effectively even in the presence of a limited set of training data, as often available in the highly non-homogeneous clutter scenarios experienced in bistatic passive radar. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme and its suitability for passive GMTI are demonstrated against both simulated and experimental data collected by a DVB-T-based multichannel mobile passive radar.
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- Giovanni Paolo Blasone
- Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications (DIET), Sapienza University of Rome, 00184 Rome, Italy; (F.C.); (P.L.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +39-06-44585-412
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- Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications (DIET), Sapienza University of Rome, 00184 Rome, Italy; (F.C.); (P.L.)
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- Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications (DIET), Sapienza University of Rome, 00184 Rome, Italy; (F.C.); (P.L.)
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- Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques (FHR), 53343 Wachtberg, Germany; (P.W.); (D.C.)
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- Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques (FHR), 53343 Wachtberg, Germany; (P.W.); (D.C.)
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Kłos J, Jędrzejewski K, Droszcz A, Kulpa K, Pożoga M, Misiurewicz J. Experimental Verification of the Concept of Using LOFAR Radio-Telescopes as Receivers in Passive Radiolocation Systems. Sensors (Basel) 2021; 21:2043. [PMID: 33799410 DOI: 10.3390/s21062043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2020] [Revised: 02/19/2021] [Accepted: 03/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The paper presents a new idea of using a low-frequency radio-telescope belonging to the LOFAR network as a receiver in a passive radar system. The structure of a LOFAR radio-telescope station is described in the context of applying this radio-telescope for detection of aerial (airplanes) and space (satellite) targets. The theoretical considerations and description of the proposed signal processing schema for the passive radar based on a LOFAR radio-telescope are outlined in the paper. The results of initial experiments verifying the concept of a LOFAR station use as a receiver and a commercial digital radio broadcasting (DAB) transmitters as illuminators of opportunity for aerial object detection are presented.
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Wojaczek P, Cristallini D, O’Hagan DW, Colone F, Blasone GP, Lombardo P. A Three-Stage Inter-Channel Calibration Approach for Passive Radar on Moving Platforms Exploiting the Minimum Variance Power Spectrum. Sensors (Basel) 2020; 21:s21010069. [PMID: 33374426 PMCID: PMC7795553 DOI: 10.3390/s21010069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2020] [Revised: 12/10/2020] [Accepted: 12/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Research in passive radar has moved its focus towards passive radar on moving platforms in recent years with the purpose of moving target indication and ground imaging via synthetic aperture radar. This is also fostered by the progress in hardware miniaturization, which alleviates the installation of the required hardware on moving platforms. Terrestrial transmitters, commonly known as illuminators of opportunity in the passive radar community, usually emit the signals in the Very High Frequency (VHF) or Ultra High Frequency (UHF) band. Due to the long wavelengths of the VHF/UHF band, there are constraints on the size of the used antenna elements, and therefore, the number of antenna elements to be employed is limited, especially as the platform carrying the passive radar system is intended to be small, potentially even an unmanned aerial vehicle. In order to detect moving targets hidden by Doppler shifted clutter returns, one common approach is to suppress the clutter returns by applying clutter suppression techniques that rely on spatial and temporal degrees of freedom, such as Displaced Phase Center Antenna (DPCA) or Space-Time Adaptive Processing. It has been shown that the DPCA approach is a meaningful technique to suppress the clutter if two antenna elements are employed. However, if the employed receiving channels are not carefully calibrated, the clutter suppression is shown to be not effective. Here, we suggest a three-stage calibration technique in order to perform the calibration of two receiving channels, which involves the exploitation of the direct signal, a data-adaptive amplitude calibration, and finally, a data-adaptive calibration of phase mismatches between both receiving channels by the estimation of the Minimum Variance Power Spectrum of the clutter. The validity of the proposed approach is shown with simulated data and demonstrated on real data from a fast ground moving platform, showing improved clutter cancellation capabilities.
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- Philipp Wojaczek
- Fraunhofer Institute of High-Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques FHR, Fraunhoferstrasse 20, 53343 Wachtberg, Germany; (D.C.); (D.W.O.)
- Correspondence:
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- Fraunhofer Institute of High-Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques FHR, Fraunhoferstrasse 20, 53343 Wachtberg, Germany; (D.C.); (D.W.O.)
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- Fraunhofer Institute of High-Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques FHR, Fraunhoferstrasse 20, 53343 Wachtberg, Germany; (D.C.); (D.W.O.)
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- Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications DIET, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana, 18, 00184 Rome, Italy; (F.C.); (G.P.B.); (P.L.)
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- Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications DIET, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana, 18, 00184 Rome, Italy; (F.C.); (G.P.B.); (P.L.)
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- Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications DIET, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana, 18, 00184 Rome, Italy; (F.C.); (G.P.B.); (P.L.)
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Klincewicz K, Samczyński P. Method of Calculating Desynchronization of DVB-T Transmitters Working in SFN for PCL Applications. Sensors (Basel) 2020; 20:s20205776. [PMID: 33053833 PMCID: PMC7599545 DOI: 10.3390/s20205776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2020] [Revised: 09/30/2020] [Accepted: 10/07/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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This paper presents a novel method of calculating desynchronization between transmitters working in a single frequency digital video broadcasting-terrestrial (DVB-T) network. The described method can be a useful tool for enhancing passive radar operations and improving passive coherent location (PCL) sensors to correct their measurements of target localization. The paper presents the problem of localizing DVB-T transmitters utilized by passive radars, and proposes a novel method based on Time Difference of Arrival (TDoA) techniques to solve the problem. The proposed technique has been validated using real signals collected by a PCL sensor receiver. The details of the experiment and extensive result analysis are also contained in this article.
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Satar B, Soysal G, Jiang X, Efe M, Kirubarajan T. Robust Weighted l1,2 Norm Filtering in Passive Radar Systems. Sensors (Basel) 2020; 20:s20113270. [PMID: 32521792 PMCID: PMC7309022 DOI: 10.3390/s20113270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2020] [Revised: 05/10/2020] [Accepted: 05/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Conventional methods such as matched filtering, fractional lower order statistics cross ambiguity function, and recent methods such as compressed sensing and track-before-detect are used for target detection by passive radars. Target detection using these algorithms usually assumes that the background noise is Gaussian. However, non-Gaussian impulsive noise is inherent in real world radar problems. In this paper, a new optimization based algorithm that uses weighted l1 and l2 norms is proposed as an alternative to the existing algorithms whose performance degrades in the presence of impulsive noise. To determine the weights of these norms, the parameter that quantifies the impulsiveness level of the noise is estimated. In the proposed algorithm, the aim is to increase the target detection performance of a universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS) based passive radars by facilitating higher resolution with better suppression of the sidelobes in both range and Doppler. The results obtained from both simulated data with α stable distribution, and real data recorded by a UMTS based passive radar platform are presented to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed algorithm. The results show that the proposed algorithm provides more robust and accurate detection performance for noise models with different impulsiveness levels compared to the conventional methods.
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- Baris Satar
- Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Ankara University, Golbasi, Ankara 06830, Turkey; (B.S.); (M.E.)
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- Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Ankara University, Golbasi, Ankara 06830, Turkey; (B.S.); (M.E.)
- Correspondence:
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- School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China;
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- Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Ankara University, Golbasi, Ankara 06830, Turkey; (B.S.); (M.E.)
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada;
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Santi F, Pastina D, Bucciarelli M. Experimental Demonstration of Ship Target Detection in GNSS-Based Passive Radar Combining Target Motion Compensation and Track-before-Detect Strategies. Sensors (Basel) 2020; 20:s20030599. [PMID: 31973167 PMCID: PMC7037432 DOI: 10.3390/s20030599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2019] [Revised: 01/17/2020] [Accepted: 01/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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This work discusses methods and experimental results on passive radar detection of moving ships using navigation satellites as transmitters of opportunity. The reported study highlights as the adoption of proper strategies combining target motion compensation and track-before-detect methods to achieve long time integration can be fruitfully exploited in GNSS-based passive radar for the detection of maritime targets. The proposed detection strategy reduces the sensitivity of long-time integration methods to the adopted motion models and can save the computational complexity, making it appealing for real-time implementations. Experimental results obtained in three different scenarios (port operations, navigation in open area, and river shipping) comprising maritime targets belonging to different classes show as this combined approach can be employed with success in several operative scenarios of practical interest for this technology.
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Affiliation(s)
- Fabrizio Santi
- Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome, 00184 Rome, Italy;
- Correspondence:
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- Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome, 00184 Rome, Italy;
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Abratkiewicz K, Samczyński P. A Block Method Using the Chirp Rate Estimation for NLFM Radar Pulse Reconstruction. Sensors (Basel) 2019; 19:s19225015. [PMID: 31744204 PMCID: PMC6891539 DOI: 10.3390/s19225015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2019] [Revised: 11/08/2019] [Accepted: 11/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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This paper presents a novel approach to fast and accurate non-linear pulse signal reconstruction dedicated for electromagnetic sensors and their applications such as ELectronic INTelligence (ELINT), electronic warfare (EW), electronic reconnaissance (ER) systems, as well as for passive bistatic radar purposes in which other pulse radars are used as a source of illumination. The method is based on the instantaneous chirp rate (CR) estimation in the time-frequency (TF) domain providing a calculation of the frequency rate between every two consecutive samples. Such a new method allows for the precise reconstruction of the non-linear frequency modulated (NLFM) signal to be carried out in significantly shorter time in comparison to methods known in the literature. The presented approach was tested and validated using both simulated and real-life radar signals proving the usability of the proposed solution in practical applications. The results were compared with the precise extended generalized chirp transform (EGCT) method as a reference technique, using optimal matched filtration as the main concept.
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Abratkiewicz K, Krysik P, Gajo Z, Samczyński P. Target Doppler Rate Estimation Based on the Complex Phase of STFT in Passive Forward Scattering Radar. Sensors (Basel) 2019; 19:E3627. [PMID: 31434325 DOI: 10.3390/s19163627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2019] [Revised: 08/07/2019] [Accepted: 08/17/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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This article presents a novel approach to the estimation of motion parameters of objects in passive forward scattering radars (PFSR). In such systems, most frequency modulated signals which are used have parameters that depend on the geometry of a radar scene and an object’s motion. Worth noting is that in bistatic (or multistatic) radars forward scattering geometry is present thus in this case only Doppler measurements are available while the range measurement is unambiguous. In this article the modulation factor, also called the Doppler rate, was determined based on the chirp rate (equivalent Doppler rate) estimation concept in the time-frequency (TF) domain. This approach utilizes the idea of the complex phase of the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) and its modification known from the literature. Mathematical dependencies were implemented and verified and the simulation results were described. The accuracy of the considered estimators were also verified using the Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) to which simulated data for the considered estimators was compared. The proposed method was validated using a real-life signal collected from a radar operating in PFSR geometry. The Doppler rate provided by a car crossing the baseline between the receiver and the GSM transmitter was estimated. Finally, the concept of using CR estimation, which in the case of PFSR can be understood as Doppler rate, was confirmed on the basis of both simulated and real-life data.
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Martelli T, Colone F, Tilli E, Di Lallo A. Multi-Frequency Target Detection Techniques for DVB-T Based Passive Radar Sensors. Sensors (Basel) 2016; 16:E1594. [PMID: 27690036 DOI: 10.3390/s16101594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2016] [Revised: 09/06/2016] [Accepted: 09/07/2016] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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This paper investigates the possibility to improve target detection capability in a DVB-T- based passive radar sensor by jointly exploiting multiple digital television channels broadcast by the same transmitter of opportunity. Based on the remarkable results obtained by such a multi-frequency approach using other signals of opportunity (i.e., FM radio broadcast transmissions), we propose appropriate modifications to the previously devised signal processing techniques for them to be effective in the newly considered scenarios. The resulting processing schemes are extensively applied against experimental DVB-T-based passive radar data pertaining to different surveillance applications. The obtained results clearly show the effectiveness of the proposed multi-frequency approaches and demonstrate their suitability for application in the considered scenarios.
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Bárcena-Humanes JL, Gómez-Hoyo PJ, Jarabo-Amores MP, Mata-Moya D, Del-Rey-Maestre N. Feasibility Study of EO SARs as Opportunity Illuminators in Passive Radars: PAZ-Based Case Study. Sensors (Basel) 2015; 15:29079-106. [PMID: 26593921 DOI: 10.3390/s151129079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2015] [Revised: 11/02/2015] [Accepted: 11/10/2015] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Passive radars exploit the signal transmitted by other systems, known as opportunity illuminators (OIs), instead of using their own transmitter. Due to its almost total invulnerability to natural disasters or physical attacks, satellite OIs are of special interest. In this line, a feasibility study of Earth Observation Synthetic Aperture Radar (EO SAR) systems as OIs is carried out taking into consideration signal waveform, availability, bistatic geometry, instrumented coverage area and incident power density. A case study based on the use of PAZ, the first Spanish EO SAR, is presented. PAZ transmitted waveform, operation modes, orbit characteristics and antenna and transmitter parameters are analyzed to estimate potential coverages and resolutions. The study concludes that, due to its working in on-demand operating mode, passive radars based on PAZ-type illuminators can be proposed as complementing tools during the sensor commissioning phase, for system maintenance and for improving its performance by providing additional information about the area of interest and/or increasing the data updating speed, exploiting other sensors during the time PAZ is not available.
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